13:1 的确，这一切我亲眼见过，我亲耳听过，是我熟悉的事。
Lo, all this my eye has seen; my ear has heard and perceived it. 13:2 你们所知道的，我也知道，我并不亚于你们。
What you know, I also know; I fall not short of you. 13:3 但是，我愿同全能者交谈，愿与天主辩论，
But I would speak with the Almighty; I wish to reason with God. 13:4 因为你们都是谎言的捏造者，全是无用的医生。
You are glossing over falsehoods and offering vain remedies, every one of you! 13:5 恨不得你们闭口不言!这样才算聪明。
Oh, that you would be altogether silent! This for you would be wisdom. 13:6 请你们听我的怨诉，留意我口中的辩论!
Hear now the rebuke I shall utter and listen to the reproof from my lips. 13:7 你们想以诡诈来为天主辩护，以谎言来为他说理﹖
Is it for God that you speak falsehood? Is it for him that you utter deceit? 13:8 难道你们想偏袒天主，有意为他辩护吗﹖
Is it for him that you show partiality? Do you play advocate on behalf of God? 13:9 他揭穿了你们，难道为你们有益﹖难道你们能欺骗他如人之欺骗人﹖
Will it be well when he shall search you out? Would you impose on him as one does on men? 13:10 你们若假意偏袒，他必严厉斥责你们。
He will openly rebuke you if even in secret you show partiality. 13:11 他的尊严能不使你们恐怖﹖他的威吓能不落在你们身上﹖
Surely will his majesty affright you and the dread of him fall upon you. 13:12 你们的古谚都是些腐朽之谈，你们的答辩都是些泥制的盾牌。
Your reminders are ashy maxims, your fabrications are mounds of clay. 13:13 你们且住口，让我来发言：不要管我有什么遭遇。
Be silent, let me alone! that I may speak and give vent to my feelings. 13:14 我已将我的肉放在我牙齿中，已将我的性命放在我手中；
I will carry my flesh between my teeth, and take my life in my hand. 13:15 即使他杀我，我仍希望在他面前表白我的行为。
Slay me though he might, I will wait for him; I will defend my conduct before him. 13:16 这样对我还有救，因为恶人不敢到他面前。
And this shall be my salvation, that no impious man can come into his presence. 13:17 你们要细听我的话，侧耳静听我的解释。
Pay careful heed to my speech, and give my statement a hearing. 13:18 我今呈上我的案件，确知我自己有理。
Behold, I have prepared my case, I know that I am in the right. 13:19 谁若与我争辩，我就住口，情愿死去。
If anyone can make a case against me, then I shall be silent and die. 13:20 惟有二事，你切莫向我作，我就不回避你：
These things only do not use against me, then from your presence I need not hide: 13:21 请将你的手由我身上撤回，莫让你的威严恐吓我。
Withdraw your hand far from me, and let not the terror of you frighten me. 13:22 那时你若召唤，我必回答；或者我说，你回答我。
Then call me, and I will respond; or let me speak first, and answer me. 13:23 我的错误罪过，究竟有多少﹖让我认识我的过犯和罪过。
What are my faults and my sins? My misdeeds and my sins make known to me! 13:24 你为何遮掩你的面容，将我视作你的仇人﹖
Why do you hide your face and consider me your enemy? 13:25 难道你要喝走被风吹落的树叶，要追逐已枯干的草屑﹖
Will you harass a wind-driven leaf, or pursue a withered straw? 13:26 以致你写下要我受苦的判词，使我承当我青年时的罪过。
For you draw up bitter indictments against me, and punish in me the faults of my youth. 13:27 以致你把我的脚缚在木桩上，窥察我的一切行动，追究我的足迹，又为我的脚步划定界限。
You put my feet in the stocks; you watch all my paths and trace out all my footsteps. 13:28 我已如腐烂的朽木，又如虫蛀蚀的衣服。
Though he wears out like a leather bottle, like a garment that the moth has consumed?